I recently channeled this information/wisdom related to self-love and its importance.  We desire to give love unconditionally yet we seem unable to provide it for ourselves. Many of us on Earth today, particularly women, are somehow blocked from sincere self-love.  Messages we may have heard, especially as children, such as “don’t be arrogant,” “people with think you are stuck up,” prevented us from acknowledging and really embracing the gifts and the Divine within us.  This can present quite a challenge for us as adults, preventing us from truly understanding how amazing each of us is.  The fear of arrogance and conceit and what others think of us has created a twisted, vicious cycle for many.  This cycle needs to stop in order to move forward on our spiritual journey and it starts with you and me — us.  It starts with all of us individually where we are.  We change ourselves first.  As parents we have a tremendous role, with our daughters in particular, to help rearrange our perceptions of who we are as humans, as souls in a body having an experience here on Earth.

My question to Spirit (God/Goddess) was “why is self-love so important”?  We always hear “you’ve got to love yourself first,”  “you need to learn to love yourself.”  Why?

Message from Spirit came through to me from Goddess Lenore and I thank her for sharing her wisdom on this important topic:

“The reason self-love is so important is because until you can accept and recognize the Divine that is within you, your journey is limited.  Without that truth, you are restraining your magnificence.  It is important to understand that you areDivine, that God is within you and is also within everything within your awareness.

When your journey includes a perception that God is outside of you, you are automatically limited, and thereby limiting Spirit’s ability to walk within you, to be within you, to glorify you and everything within your awareness.

There is nothing about this that is self-serving.  Please understand that.  The Divine within you wants so desperately to fully embody who you are.  It is not about you, and you being so great in a boastful way.  It is about you fully embracing how amazing you are so that you can also see that same fact, that same truth in every single other person and every other being.  This is all about unconditional love.  This is all about loving.

Each of you can get there.  Each of you have exactly what you need to get there.

What steps are necessary in order to fully realize the Divine within us?  One image that may help is a pizza.  If you have a whole pizza, you know it is a pizza.  When you take a slice of that pizza out and hand it to somebody, it is still a pizza.  It didn’t change what it was because it was separated from the whole.  It really is that simple with Divine Spirit.  It begins with realizing that Divine is absolutely everything.  Then, you recognize that you are a piece of everything.  There is a full collective that is Divine, of which you are a piece.  Please re-read that and just sit with it for a moment.

When you read that and when you understand that in a way that you can fully digest, your spirit guides and angels will begin to connect with you.  Or, you may actually feel them celebrating with you that you heard this message, perhaps for the first time.  Or you may be hearing it again but somehow, this time it is penetrating through the thick walls of our ego at this moment.  I celebrate as well if this is your moment of understanding this.

You are Divine.  You Are Divine.  You are excellent and you are perfection because of the Divine within you.  You are everything that you have attributed to God.  You are powerful.  You are loving.  You can create.  You can perform miracles.  But until you believe that, until you acknowledge that within yourself, then you are preventing Divine from walking within you.  You may be denying that bright light that is trying to burst out from you, trying to contain it because you don’t want to be too showy or have someone think that you are too good for them.  We recommend you let go of that restrictive thinking.  It is not serving you.  It is preventing you from living the life your Soul intended.  And isn’t that what we all want?  We all want Divine to be unrestrained; radiating out from within this amazing body that you have, that is so capable of so much!

And once you start to walk that journey you will understand that it is not about showiness.  It is not about arrogance.  It is not about perfection that you have and others don’t.  Because once you walk that walk, you fully understand that same Divinity is also within everybody else.  That is how you can avoid the trap of ego and arrogance.  It is not about thinking you are better than anyone else.  Because you know that you are not.  It is not better than or worse than.  It is uniform Divinity.  Some of it, most of it, unacknowledged.

But can you imagine what this Earth will be like when more and more accept the Divinity within them?  Can you imagine how powerful, how amazing that will be?

We already know that a loving, caring person can change the day, even the life, of someone they come into contact with, whether it is a salesperson that helped you or you share a smile with a stranger or with someone very dear to you.  That feeling of selflessness, of love and wanting to share that love with others is an example of the Divine within you that hopefully you have already experienced. It feels amazing and this is because it is accessing the Divine within you and sparking the Divine within them.

To the giver and to the recipient, this spark feels so good for all the right reasons, the reasons that can last for infinity.  You, at your soul, are infinite. Divine is infinite.  It is everlasting and it is more powerful, comforting, encouraging and more joyful than anything else that we can imagine.

That is enough for now.

You are love.  I am love.  We are love.

Namaste”